Sureyya Yigit

Founding Director: Social Science Research Centre, International Ataturk Alatoo University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

Kyrgyzstan’s flawed referendum

The political atmosphere that surrounded the constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan shows that the country’s crisis is not over, says Sureyya Yigit in Bishkek

By Sureyya Yigit

/ 2 Jul 2010

Kyrgyzstan’s angel of death

The explosion of terrifying violence in southern Kyrgyzstan reveals deep-rooted problems in this central Asian state. A provisional map of the crisis, by Sureyya Yigit in Bishkek.

By Sureyya Yigit

/ 22 Jun 2010

The Kyrgyz catastrophe

Bishkek’s bloody regime-change reflects the aborted hopes of the brief political flowering in 2005. But a key question of external agency remains, says Sureyya Yigit.

By Sureyya Yigit

/ 15 Apr 2010

Kyrgyzstan's default mode is Russia

The end of the US airbase at Manas airbase was only one of the decisions announced at the recent meeting in Moscow between Kyrgyz President Bakiev and President Medvedev. Russia

By Sureyya Yigit

/ 9 Feb 2009